1st. saudi arabia says today's devastating drone attacks on its own world facilities were unquestionably sponsored by iran because the missile components made in iran. deadlock 2.0 israel's on yet another election stalemate with prime minister netanyahu currently lagging one seat behind rival danny gans and the coalition holds now. for a majority in parliament. in the coming days. to assemble a strong government i intend to speak with everyone starting tonight and work to form a broad unity government. and the new york times faces a backlash from publishing and from a forthcoming book about the alleged sexual misconduct of u.s.

supremes court judge brett kavanaugh on the important details. it's 9 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international line from our studio with me welcome to the program. saudi arabia now claims that iran was involved in this weekend's attack on the kingdom's refineries and that the attack was not conducted from yemen in the south but came from the north and on swiftly rebuffed the defense ministries as lacking real proof his caleb moore pin with the details. well we heard the press conference from the saudi ministry of defense earlier and we also understand that at this point mike pompei o has arrived in saudi arabia for his working visit and he is referring to the attack as an act of war in blaming iran but at the press conference. that we heard

they announced that they had carried out a thorough investigation and come to some pretty specific conclusions as. the attack did not originate from yemen the attack was movements from the movement and was unquestioned be sponsored by a wrong it's not in the range of yemen's capabilities if it was them who can talk to the attack this is one of the missiles we have recovered and we have information that leads us to the source of these kind of components were made in iran as the saudi officials were speaking they had scattered parts of the missiles to route the room and they pointed to these scattered parts of the missile to make their point that iran was responsible if that iranian regime and the i.r.g.c. are trying to hide any evidence of the components and the technology i'm sure we will. we're working on whoever is responsible about to take accountability basically as the saudi officials were speaking they argued that the components of

these missiles were iranian made they said that iran is attempting to hide evidence interestingly when they were pressed for details about the location from which the attack was launched they gave some rather vague answers this is saudi officials responding to questions from reporters particular nice when when is the breaking point what is the red line where you feel you would be compelled to respond militarily militarily if i thought it had or we're working right now to move launch point and when we have it we will have evidence decision is not my love and now the islamic republic of iran has responded and said that this is simply not accurate and they said that saudi arabia does not have real proof that iran is responsible. the news conference from the saudi arabian defense ministries press secretary is a catastrophe for saudi arabia they've shown they cannot prove or know exactly

where the cruise missiles and drawings were made from exactly where that attack was launched or why edda friend systems could not prevent that attack. we discuss recent developments with former british m.p. matthew gordon banks who is a senior research fellow for the u.k. defense academy he says that riyadh could have missed the attack from yemen as their defenses are aimed at iran. what they really mean is that the weaponry may well have been supplied and probably was by iran. the same way that my country and others have supplied arms to the kingdom of saudi arabia. been used in this 4 year war against yemen most of the weaponry the cyber equipment is actually aimed at iran and not yemen and therefore all sorts of things could have come floating through the air from yemen which may very well have been midst and i think that's probably what happened in this case. with more than 90 percent of the

vote counted the fate of israel's prime minister hangs in the balance right now in any case neither has enough allies to form a government which means yet more protracted coalition talks lie ahead live now to tell of the parties has been following this paula netanyahu is on course to lose out again what did he overlook to lose public support. well it certainly seems as if he read the situation wrong this is the 2nd election in 6 months and it's the 2nd time in 6 months that netanyahu has lost back in april he was unable to form a majority coalition government in other words to get 61 out of 120 part of the 3 seats and this time not only is your neighbor to do that but he's actually been placed 2nd in terms of the party leader these are the the number of seats he is being placed 2nd to the for me army chief benny gantz who heads up

a center left party now the race has been tight it's only 160000 seats that is the equivalent of that one parliamentary mandate so it's only $160000.00 seats that separate the 2 leaders but said netanyahu is running out of coalition partners he hasn't got any new partners to approach to pursue his traditional ones and he's also making. desperate attempt to try and present this in a positive light he's made an appeal which he says we will fight on to form a strong zionist government without the arab parties many people here interpret that as the desperate words of a desperate man the arab parties failed particularly well they came in 3rd position with almost 70 percent voter turnout so there is no chance netanyahu can form a coalition with them but there are a strong presence and then we also have been need guns is not going to be tossed presumably with forming the next government he says he is prepared to potentially work with netanyahu so he could party but only if netanyahu is not there and

netanyahu of course is not going to accept this but there are questions whether or not in the future the party might actually osc him to step down so that they can form that unity government and still remain within the ruling coalition or not his policies also seem to have backfired for lack of a better word just before the election he made promises of annexing safe homes in the west bank and the jordan valley that didn't seem to bring him any new votes the trump card literally where he advertises his close relationship with the american president is almost a given in his role that didn't seem to benefit him so certainly what we witnessing here is the israeli prime minister fighting for his political survival certainly it seems like. the prime minister has also said a bloc of right wing and religious parties is being established to negotiate a new government will this work out because what we've seen in the past is the baby couldn't reach an agreement with the little one for example.

it's very difficult i mean the next few weeks will be political wrangling and the backwards and forwards in terms of making negotiations of course his traditional bloc is going to be from right wing supporters and from the orthodox but it doesn't give him a majority he still falls short of maybe between 4 to 7 seats we waiting to see the final. which will come out on tuesday you mentioned having to leave a man he really is the king the king maker here and he is expected to have between 8 and 10 seats now and he and netanyahu have a lot of bad blood between them so on the one hand they'll need to put their personal differences aside and then on the other hand the time yahoo is committed to the orthodox parties and lieberman is campaigning on the ticket of secularism he wants nothing to do with the orthodox parties so it seems almost impossible hunters are not who's going to be able to form a coalition with lieberman on the one side and the orthodox parties on the other so so this is the problem in israel there is just too many political parties with too

many different agendas the sense one gets here is that the country is in a position of stalemate almost in the same position that it was 6 months ago and that's why increasingly more questions are being aust as to whether or not a 3rd election is going to be held which is just essentially going to cost the country more money it's going to create more fatigue and more frustration amongst israelis ok we'll leave it all to middle east correspondent reporting from tel aviv thanks paula. political analyst mitchell believes that mr netanyahu doesn't have any viable options for a coalition. the ironic thing is the last election which was a few months ago and it's a now had really all the options in the world he could have formed a right of center government a narrow one with about 61 suits or he could have sat down with benny gantz and had a unity government with 70 and added more parties he chose to do neither he wasn't successful and either called for new elections now what it appears is i would say it's the final countdown to the end of the career of that and you know he's talking

about a narrow right of center zionist government you know a narrow government and many gods is sounding like a leader unifying the people the will of the people he's going to talk to all the parties most of the parties that have run from the left blue and white to the labor party to the democratic camp party all of them has said we'll join a national unity government with the likud even we just won't do it with it and you know that and you know for most israeli politicians and many and many of the israeli people is damaged goods. book about allegations of sexual harassment by u.s. supreme court justice but coming out and being previewed in the neal times but the papers facing a backlash for apparently taking things out of context and he has been reading between the lines if you're kind of sick of hearing the same story all over again like the president called this or that media nothing but junk or you're glad you

haven't heard the name brand cavanaugh and something related to his genitals for a while i'm really sorry i don't think they'll do it but they should for the good of the nation i call for the resignation of everybody had to do york times involved . yep which is once again one of the biggest stories in the land of trump and co versus the liberals here we go so to tom's journalists wrote a book and had a preview published in the sunday paper what's being teased are 2 previously reported alleged cases of sexual harassment by brad cavanaugh now a supreme court justice from his years at yale. a freshman named brett kavanaugh pulled down his pants interest his penis at her prompting her to swatted away and inadvertently touch it. a classmate masti or saw mr cameron with his pants down at

a different drunken durham party where friends pushed his penis into to hand over a female student now that is gross if it fell on mr cavanaugh was really up to all that surely he must face severe consequences although for now these are just lines from a book not something put forward by let's say the folks from the justice department but if you pick almost any one of the democratic presidential candidate lineup they've made up their minds on what should be next for kavanaugh confirmation is not exoneration and these news revelations that disturb him like the man who appointed him kevin on should be impeached he was put on the court through a sham process and he is placed on the court as an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice he must be impeached it is more clear than ever that brett kavanaugh lied under oath he should be impeached i stand with survivors and countless other

americans in calling for impeachment proceedings to begin but dig a bit deeper and perhaps trump's latest rant at the n.y.t. isn't so wide off the mark there could have been a bit of a problem with their journalistic ethics you see some conservative folks got an advanced copy of the book and realized something rather important was dropped in the times teaser the book notes quietly that the woman max steer named as having been supposedly victimized by kavanagh in france denies any memory of an alleged event seems odd or no significant it was then the paper's turn to do something about it after a while here's what they came up with. an earlier version did not include want aliment of the book's account regarding an assertion by classmate to friends of brett cavanagh pushed his penis into him of the female student and a drunken during party the book reports that if the male student declined to be interviewed and friends see the she does not recall the incident that information

has been added to. the authors were bound to be asked why the central piece of the puzzle was missing in your draft of the article did it include those words that have since been added to the article and to it so somewhere in the editing process those words were no i mean i think what happened actually was that you know we had her name and you know the times doesn't usually include the name of rectum and so i think in this case the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it and in removing her name they removed the other reference to the fact that she didn't remember it they could have done a good job at protecting the victim or they could have messed the whole thing up wildly because no matter what's not in the article they say her name is in the book or maybe mr crump was right and they didn't want to read the story of that extra spice and left out the crucial bit on purpose what if the woman doesn't even consider herself a victim she reportedly says she doesn't remember anything like this oh god have

his genitals liberal media frob watch this space my friends. india pakistan controlled kashmir should be considered part of its own territory the indian foreign minister also expressed hope that one day they would have physical jurisdiction over the region artist on india have been at loggerheads with the kashmir for more than 70 years since they failed to agree on the borders drawn up during the british partition of india. it used to be one country under british rule where communities of differing religions live side by side for generations but 70 years ago independence or the region split into india and pakistan in a process that went down in history books as the partition and so did the man who hurriedly through the border the year 1947 the dying days of the british empire

weakened by the 2nd world war india became a burden london was also unable to counter the growing independence movement led by matt mackenzie to fix it britain appointed lord louis mountbatten as the last viceroy of india he made it clear it was not his dream job. i am prepared to accept the job only on one condition india must be granted independence by july 948 and i will not stay there a day longer. once he arrived though he decided he couldn't wait that long it needed to be sorted more quickly in just 5 weeks to be precise and to lord cyril radcliffe a british lawyer who had never set foot in india he was tasked with drawing a line between the most cohesive muslim and hindu populated areas just like mountbatten radcliff 2 found india not to his liking. it was impossible to undertake the field survey in june because of the heat so how does anyone who's not

familiar with the situation on the ground decide where the border is going to be well studied the maps obviously it's all in there the demographics the religious majority it's also simple isn't it the areas with the majority of muslims in pakistan and the hindus in india problem solved right if the aspirations of some people had not been fulfilled the fold must be found in political arrangements with which i'm not concerned the ratcliffe line was only revealed to the people the day before independence and seeing. celebration were replaced with fear and confusion as millions woke up on the wrong side of the border the partition on the radcliffe line led to unprecedented violence resulting in up to a 1000000 deaths so how did it all go wrong many areas had equal numbers of muslims and hindus radcliffe also didn't take the sikhs into account and he'd never even heard of kashmir. i was not even aware of kashmir i heard about it long after i

returned to london both lord mountbatten and lord radclyffe made a swift exit from the heat leaving millions of people to deal with their quick and toxic solution for generations to come. today in india controlled kashmir a communications blackout is being enforced making it very difficult if not impossible for people on either side of the disputed region to speak to each other india says it was put in place to curb potential violence and prevent the possibility of separatist rallies we spoke to a family unable to call their relatives on the engine side of the border. since last march we've been unable to get a hold of our relatives in india held kashmir but we keep trying to restore to a disconnect i've seen for myself this kind of atrocity back in 2010 when i went to kashmir the situation was intense. we were dying to know their condition were

concerned something isn't right we have no way to live they have food to your grandchildren are going hungry you there. and does it do that the whole time. and yes it is like this whenever we try to reach down we pray for them constantly our hearts are bleeding we just want to see them again. kashmir is split into 3 parts administered by india pakistan and. which also has claims to part of the territory tension escalated recently after new delhi stripped india administered kashmir its only muslim majority state of its autonomy in august pakistan rejected the move saying it contradicts international law on tuesday india's leader and the renderer modi announced that the kashmir region would get a development boost including foreign investment he says the region is made to be made prosperous and negotiations are already underway meanwhile india's top court

ordered the federal government to restore normal life in kashmir as soon as possible we are some regional analysts where the blackouts and other severe measures were necessary in kashmir. sectional situation requires exceptional measures and. implementers and sure the government will involve. you know when he started off by name is on. lot of things here we relaxed what example. was britain's open more start there but i think it's opened and the marilyn connections of us all of course some restrictions there were. those instructions would also be removed so those who are gay will be released in good to do very little except those who have some. odd charges against them and the case is going against them in the us or it's clearly the some of the confusion and

the restrictions on the communications restrictions especially. telephone and on internet are working because a lot of the cross border terrorist attacks have happened through coordination. these means and also through all. the other such things which are in our you know which are encrypted and not easy to crowd funding diligence agencies so i think some of the restrictions will remain but 90 more than 90 percent of our country rally which is a muslim majority part of german country are already did time. dictions have been lifted and landline telephones are actually working and i got my own friends there who have been able to communicate with me to landlines so it's not that they're completely isolated or there's a daughter blackout but gradually i think as the security situation improves i think most of these really believed it. the teenage face of the global

climate change has been given to the u.s. congress a dressing down 16 year old letter to tell us to listen to the scientists and take action here early and let with the former president back up and i trust the senate . don't invite us here just to tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it because it doesn't lead to anything and i know you're trying but just not hard enough sorry turn burgos in washington for a few days ahead of the global climate strike plan for friday it will also address the un climate action summit in new york on monday the youngster became the face of this year's climate protests by taking part in school strikes and skipping class joined by students around the world scientists though are warning of a growing number of youngsters being treated for eco anxiety after being exposed to apocalyptic warnings about the earth's environmental plight britain's climate psychology alliance says children are being prescribed psychiatric drugs to cope and once the problem to become

a recognised condition group executive and psychotherapist caroline hickman believes it's a rational fear so shouldn't be medicated away. young people are naturally very empathetic to the state of the environment most going on in the wild the moment we're talking about their future of course they perceive this as a real threat to them so i think it's perfectly understandable they are really quite stressed and distressed about this this is a very emotionally healthy response to the new exhibit well the man and a recount ignore what's going on in the news because the graphic images are fried it's not granting really quite right i would be very concerned here that said children's just gestures being medicated away as i said earlier you know their emotional responses make perfect sense in the light of what's going on in the wild so the 1st thing we need to do is listen to them talk to them and help the process these complicated feelings it's really important to tell children the truth and not

hide the truth from them but child number these things in ways that they can understand don't exaggerate it don't minimize cvs because both of those would cruise distress and would cause problems as our news i'll be back with all the latest updates around 30 minutes time so to stay with us. again we stand on the brink of war we should not be surprised official washington was quick to blame iran for the attack on saudi energy assets iran has denied involvement while those who have claimed responsibility will trump take the neo-con bait and set the middle east on fire.

time after time going underground after the presidents of russia iran and turkey agreed to ally in the fight against the islamists of syria just as the u.k. and usa appeared to signal threats to iran which would defacto benefit those islamists coming up on the show the deputy chair of the founding body of modern turkey u n l 7 cause tells going on the ground that boris johnson did not play the turkey very cleverly when syrian refugees fled their homes to escape death and destruction and as you came media breathlessly promotes former pm david cameron we get one of his former ministers to explain the libya and bricks of excuses as well as what is happening it is bodies and you will conference now with added labor notes territory

defectors plus the chair of britain's international trade committee and guess what the meal in a parliament shut down the end of boris johnson and the end of the united kingdom all those or more coming up in today's going on the ground the 1st straight to the threat of a u.k. u.s. war in iran joining me now from istanbul is the deputy chair of the founding party of modern 2. kunal to have a cause was turkish ambassador to the u.k. would go lucian prime minister david cameron came to power thanks so much for coming on so before i even get to the meeting of 3 presidents in the capital or monday just what did you make of trump saying he's locked and loaded after all in june the call for an attack on iran minute of course iran borders turkey to its east well i think it's a very complicated situation 1st of all nobody knows who has attacked actually so the key word here is prudence and beauty i think the saudis are also very cautious

saw the americans nobody can blame directly iran but they were the suspects that the attack has been perhaps organized and conducted by iran iran on the other side says that this is a kind of creation of a perception against iran and i think all these are happening just before the u.n. general assembly where we could perhaps see a couple of bilateral meetings and now i understand that the president rouhani has made it clear that there won't be a meeting between me and the saudis have asked for an international commission to mourn it or the places where the attack has taken place so i think he let us wait and see you see unsourced leaks are already appearing in western and mainstream media that it definitely was iran and not the who to use of yemen. to the around go facility in saudi arabia i mean what do you think about the timing of it do you

think it seems plausible that iran ahead of next tuesday's general assembly in new york would do this while the iran is probably still waiting from the united states to return to the g c p a way and since they have not received any kind of sign that the states is going to accept. it's all terms they're probably reluctant in meeting and having anybody that sort of during the u.n. general assembly i think the situation on the ground in that region is it is not the direct confrontation between major powers or major actors most of the confrontation is taking place through proxies and it is so obvious that the hooty have mentioned that they will attack again this doesn't necessarily mean that they have heard that the 1st attack but they at least tried to give the sign that they are also in the game you see i'm really referring to the fact that when shinzo

arbor the japanese prime minister was in tears suddenly iran was accused of seizing a japanese vessel then when donald trump says 11 conditional talks with president rouhani was of course being in turkey on monday suddenly this happens you don't see that there's anything to be suspicious about i don't find any kind of the direct relationship between the president rouhani has and prison terms meeting possible meeting and the visit options are a bit to to head around it is probably a coincidence but i still insist that we will have to wait and see what the. real motive behind the attack and who has organized the attack is clear of course britain seized an iranian vessel of the recent uptick in the threats military threats against iran what do you make of britain want to overthrow your southern

neighbor the government the government of syria in the context of monday's talks or one of the major results of the trilateral summit. was. probably the agreement on the formation of the constitutional committee and now all the 3 sides have agreed. that the names are more or less creator and there is no dispute about the lists which shows that now we can proceed the geneva process and this is an encouraging sign because the constitutional committees formation is a major step towards the continuation of the peace talks now once the considered community committee is formed and once the geneva talks start i think it is quite obvious that we are accepting that this transition is going to take place during the assad regime is still in power so.